Anime Like Mononoke

Mononoke follows the story of a man simply known as the Medicine Seller.

However, it is not medicine he sells, but rather he travels feudal Japan ridding villages of malevolent spirits called mononoke.

Before he can kill each spirit he encounters, he must first learn its Form, Truth, and its Reason.

In this world, there exist Mushi, spirits that often exist with no purpose. However, these Mushi can affect the physical world in countless forms from diseases to more pleasant phenomenon.

Why do these Mushi exist?

That is the question that Ginko the Mushi-shi, a researcher on the phenomenon, asks himself as he travels the land investigating Mushi-related incidents.

Watanuki can see spirits and supernatural creatures, an ability he finds annoying. However, one day after being bothered by some spirits, he feels compelled to enter a strange house.

Within, he meets Yuuko, a woman that claims to be able to remove his ability for a price. The price being that he works in her store where she grants wishes.

After spending his first few days of school in the infirmary after a spirit attached itself to him, Ashiya asks for the help from the owner of a small tea shop called the Mononokean.

Though morose, this tea shop owner helps spirits wander from this world to the next.

After being raised as an orphan, Himari Momochi is thrilled when she learns that she inherited the Momochi House, a secluded mansion in the woods, on her 16^th birthday. Hoping to learn more about her dead parents, she ignores the rumors that the Momochi House is haunted and hopes to live there.

Inside, she is surprised to meets the handsome Aoi Nakamori and his two shikigami, Ise and Yukari, that live there.

Himari learns that the Momochi House sits in a space that connects the human and spirits worlds, and Aoi is serving as a guardian, a position that was once supposed to be Himari’s. While Aoi initially tries to drive her away, Himari moves in and assists Aoi with his duties.

The Taira Clan, also known as the Heike, have developed authority in Japan. When a young girl disrespects a representative of the clan, her father pays the price with his life.

Later, this girl, now adopting the name Biwa after the instrument her father played, approaches Taira no Shigemori, the eldest son of the Taira Clan leader.

To him, she reveals the power of her eye to see the future and portends the downfall of his clan. He reveals to her the power in his eye to see the wandering ghosts of the dead and, after learning of how her father died, offers to take her in in hopes that she can help him steer his clan away from disaster.

Tired of writing riddles for children, Tamaoka Momosuke decides to gather spooky and gruesome stories to publish them in an anthology called the One Hundred Tales.

In his research for myths and legends, he happens across three supernatural detectives that reveal the truth behind the legends and bring those who have done wrong to justice.

It is said that those who hold a powerful grudge can access a particular website at midnight. By entering a name here, that person can be ferried straight to hell.

This is the tale of Ai Enma, the Hell Girl that carries out those orders.

In the year 5053, French aristocrats Viscount Albert de Morcerf and Baron Franz d’Epinay attend Carnivale on the moon. While Franz wants to have fun, Albert is looking for something more fulfilling.

However, after catching the eye of the Count of Monte Cristo at the opera, he finds more than he bargains for. Albert introduce the reclusive Count into French society, but the Count has vengeance on his mind as he seeks to ruin those who wronged him.

Introverted Lain Iwakura finds herself one of many girls to receive an e-mail from classmate Chisa Yomoda, even though Chisa Yomoda recently committed suicide.

Averse to technology, Lain soon finds herself able to enter the Wired, a network system similar to the internet.

From there, her life gets turned upside down as she finds herself the target of mysterious men and mixed up in a series of cryptic mysteries.

At a mysterious back alley ramen stand, a lonely college student in his final year accidentally bumps into a man that calls himself the God of Matrimony. There, he pours his soul out to the god about all the regrets he has about his college life, which he spent bitterly trying to break up couples.

However, soon he finds himself back at the very start of his college career. Can he change the past or will he just repeat past mistakes?

For as long as he can remember, Takashi Natsume has been chased by spirits, but recently he discovered that the reason was because his deceased grandmother had passed on to him her “Book of Friends,” a book containing all the spirits she had brought under her control.

Now Natsume realizes that these spirits haunt him in hopes of gaining freedom. With few friends, no loving home, and constantly hunted by malicious spirits, Natsume looks for a place where he belongs.

Abe no Seimei is a renowned onmyouji that serves the emperor and whose expertise is often sought for on various spiritual matters.

Despite his unpopularity in the court, the court noble Minamoto no Hiromasa seeks him out to help with a mysterious ox-less ox cart that has been appear around town and causing harm to those that get in its way.

While Seimei and Hiromasa get along contentiously at first, spiritual matters continue to pull them together. However, intrigue within the court and from outside onmyouji give rise to dark plots.